What causes kidney stones?

Answer 1

The question has been answered. The bigger question is how to prevent. And, a couple of MD's found and easy solution, but you have to do it religiously.

4 ounces of fresh lemon juice in 2 liters of water. This is what you have to drink every day for the rest of your life. If you have chronic stones developing.

There is chemical in the juice which breaks down the stone slowly and will prevent it from forming. Most of us have a similar chemical in our bodies, so we don't develop stones. The unlucky people who genetically don't or don't produce enough develop stones.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Kidney Stones Causes
Although the precise causes of kidney stones are not fully understood, kidney stones are crystals that “fall out” of the solution that is your urine. These collections of crystals can be as small as a grain of sand or as large as a marble. Some are smooth, but most are jagged, which makes them harder to pass. The pain you experience from kidney stones happens when you have a blockage and pressure in the renal (kidney) system. A stone may stay in the kidney or break loose and travel down the urinary tract. This movement is also painful.

The 4 major types of kidney stones are defined by their make-up. An evaluation of the actual stone, along with 24-hour urine collections and blood tests, are helpful in identifying the causes of stone formation. Identifying the cause will help your doctor decide what specific therapy will decrease further attacks of kidney stones.
The most common type is a calcium stone (75%).

Too much calcium in the urine combines with other waste products to form stones.

This can result from increased absorption of calcium from the gut, hyperparathyroidism, sarcoidosis, renal tubular acidosis, or imbalances in the amounts of calcium, oxalic acid, citrate, and magnesium in the urine.


Struvite stones (magnesium ammonium phosphate) (15%) may form after an infection in the urinary system.


Certain types of bacteria seen in chronic urinary tract infections split urea into ammonium in your urine. The ammonium then combines with phosphate and magnesium to form the stones.

Treatment of this type of infection must be done at the same time as removal of the stone.

Uric acid stones (6%) are associated with a high purine intake and acidic urine.

Meats, fish, gravies, legumes, and meat extracts create high amounts of purine when digested.


Gout is a disease associated with this type of stone.

People with cancer may develop this type of stone because of the rapid cell turnover.

Cystine stones (2%) are the least common type and develop when a metabolic defect keeps the kidneys from reabsorbing several compounds. This results in too much cystine in the urine that easily “falls out” of solution and forms stones.

Other types of stones are a direct result of a medication prescribed for other reasons. The most common of these is an indinavir stone. Indinavir (Crixivan) is used to treat people with the HIV infection. This stone is made up of the medication itself falling out of solution.

Answer 4

I couldn't just sit around and do nothing like my doctors suggested.

They didn't want me to do anything or to take herbs or herbal remedies, but I had to try something - they just wanted me to do dialysis!

This program allowed me to take control of my health. I went from Stage 4 to Stage 3 kidney disease.

It was easy to do and my BUN, creatinine and anemia are all in better ranges.

Reversing Your Kidney Disease?

Answer 5

the result of mineral supersaturation and crystallization in the urine. Heredity, environment, age, sex, urinary infection, diet, and metabolic diseases are probably involved in stone formation. The primary known causes are: 1) inadequate urinary drainage, 2) dehydration and lack of sufficient fluid ingestion, 3) foreign bodies in the urinary tract, 4) diet with excess oxalates, calcium, and vitamin abnormalities, e.g., Vitamin A deficiencies, Vitamin D excess, 5) urinary infections, 6) metabolic diseases, e.g., hyperparathyroidism, cystinuria, gout, intestinal dysfunction, and 7) use of certain medications, e.g., diuretics, that increase levels of uric acid.

Answer 6

my dad has had these so bad that they had to go in him and take them out because they were so big he could not pass them the doctor told him that not drinking enough fluids and eating a lot of cheese and dairy product and drinking a lot of milk will cause them